Diary of Edgar Clarence Worsfold, item 61

• February 7, 2018 02:40:58 Thomas A. Lingner

  German line then he looked down in the trench

  and said come on boys there is nothing to

  fear here and they all jumped up as one man

  and got themselves placed in little group

  what they called artillery formation and when

  they marched off towards the German line

  and gradually opened out as if they

  were on a barrack square instead of going

  going over the top you could see one fall

  here and one there either killed or wounded

  with the shrapnel and bullets but on they went

  and took no notice of them falling until

  they got in the German line it was the

  finest sight I had ever seen it was

  a magnificent Piece of work whether 

  it was done like that for a swank in front

  of us or not it was a splendid bit of

  swank I always admired the guards after

  that we followed them over shortly afterwards adn

  the guards went out and left us here to bear

  the counter attack but they did not attack

  with troops only with shells but they laid

  a lot of our chaps out before we finally got

  relieved and went back to Ashan Woods

  about 10 mile from the line after being in

  the trenches for a week during the Battle

  and from here for another fortnight we

  had to go up the line on working party

  all night work digging trenches and filling

  sandbags and burying dead from the

  battle a very hard fortnight's work 10 mile

  march before we start work and dodging 

  shells and snipers bullets and digging

  and working hard all night and half the

  
  

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